Des Moines lawyer pursues Bisignano arrest report

The Iowa Senate candidate was charged with drunken driving two months ago.

9:37 PM,
Nov. 27, 2013

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The Altoona Police Department is violating the state's open-records law by not releasing an incident report involving the drunken driving arrest of an Iowa Senate candidate, according to a complaint filed Wednesday.

Des Moines attorney Gary Dickey, formerly general counsel and a policy director to former Gov. Tom Vilsack, filed a complaint with the Iowa Public Information Board, hoping to force the Altoona Police Department to release its incident report on the arrest of Tony Bisignano.

Bisignano, 61, a Democrat, is running for Senate in 2014 in the south Des Moines district seat ...